Here’s any easy STEM activity that you can do with kids of a variety of ages with materials you already have at home.
Buggy and Buddy shared a paper plate marble maze that you can make really simply with construction … Read More ...
Build a Cardboard Town to Keep Kids Occupied
Speaking of happy trash, as I was the other day, there is nothing better than giving a kid a pile of stuff and seeing what they do with it.
If yours needs a little more guidance, give them some cardboard … Read More ...
Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
If you’re of a certain age you probably remember Where in the World is Carmen Sandeigo? the crime-fighting, globe-trotting video game turned TV game show of the 1980s and 1990s.
(There’s also a card game version I bought my daughter … Read More ...
How to Make a Self-Propelled Boat from a Margarine Tub
Where I live they’ve stopped collecting recycling in order to keep the sanitation workers safe, and while we can still take our recycling out ourselves it feels like we have a lot more “happy trash” around the house these days … Read More ...
Easy Homeschooling With Ready Made Workbooks
Homeschooling is happening all over the world whether we like it or not. We have seen an increase in worksheets requests and printables. But did you know that not everyone has the luxury of a printer. The cost of printing … Read More ...
Art Lesson – Color Your Own Italian Renaissance Paintings
Dedicated colorists will delight in 30 exquisitely reproduced masterpieces by the finest artists of the Italian Renaissance! Full-page illustrations include Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, Raphael’s The Sistine Madonna, Michelangelo’s The Delphic Sibyl, Fra Angelico’s The Annunciation,… Read More ...
Fun with Hamilton, Kids at Home
If you or your kids are fans of Hamilton: the Musical, you might know about the educational program related to the show known as EduHam. When students attend the show they also go through this program where they learn … Read More ...
Craft Books – Dover Publications Exclusive Discount Code
Dover Publications is offering a discount for readers. Save 20% off orders of $30 or more with Coupon Code DFA9.
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But wait there is more, did you know about … Read More ...
Printable Body Parts Matching Game – Fun and Educational Activity for Kids
Printable Body Parts Matching Game – Fun & Educational Activity for Kids
Learning about the human body doesn’t have to feel like a science lesson—it can be playful, engaging, and hands-on! This printable body parts matching game from Powerful Mothering… Read More ...
Become a Junior Ranger Online
The National Parks Service in the United States has a cool program called the Junior Rangers, where kids can complete activities and learn about the parks they visit and earn a patch or a passport stamp.
While kids are at … Read More ...
Celebrate the Helpers with This Matching Game
Learning about community helpers is a common thing in preschool and kindergarten, and now we are all relying on those vital helpers from mail carriers to doctors to teachers all the more than normal.
Using this printable community helpers two-piece … Read More ...
Printable Recycling Sorting Game
One of the everyday things that a lot of us to do to help the planet is recycling. But it can be tricky to know all the rules or teach our kids the right way to recycle.
This printable recycling … Read More ...
Free Printable -Simple Math Games for Kids
While we are all home with our kids I’ll bet we’re playing more games than we used to, but there’s no reason those games can’t be a least a little educational.
If you have littles who are learning about numbers, … Read More ...
Take College-Level Courses for Free at Home
I recently saw that Sophia, an online learning platform, is offering free access to more than 30 of its college-level courses through July 31, 2020.
These classes are mostly entry-level things like English Composition, American History and Introduction to Psychology, … Read More ...
Nature Crafts – Make a Milk Carton into a Bird Feeder
One of the tenets of the environmental movement is reduce, reuse, recycle, and creative reuse of items that might otherwise get thrown away is one of my favorite things.
It’s hard to recycle paper milk and juice cartons because the … Read More ...